VICE | Official Trailer

VICE explores the epic story about how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today.

Christian Bale’s physical transformations are so impressive that they often overshadow his performances in people’s conversations, but my god is he a great actor. Sam Rockwell nailed the mannerisms of W, too.

Vndres I don’t know about this particular movie but Bale has done similar real body transformations before. He became fat for the 2013 movie American Hustle (which released in theaters just a year after The Dark Knight Rises in which he played Batman) and then after the movie was done, he worked the fat off once again. So I’m inclined to believe he might have just gotten fat for this role too. Though I think some of the fat on his face area might be makeup, etc. when comparing it to his face in American Hustle (though it might just also be age doing it’s thing and his face starting to get fat easier when he fattens up for a role).

He has makeup to make him look more like Cheney but he gained weight for the role. Christian Bale has a long history of losing/gaining weight for roles, and in my opinion he took it too far for The Machinist, losing 110 lbs in under 6 months and wanting to go lower but Nolan feared for his health.

No look for a recent picture of Bale, he must be around 200-220 pounds of mostly fat at this point. This dude takes acting to next level. He has been a on the brink of death anorexic, a ripped super hero and no a fat old white dude. All that in like in around 15 years.